Just A Question
Not going to be long in my posting today. Just wanted to pose this question and let you think on it: If you were the Devil, would you have to do anything different to keep others from hearing about the Gospel from you?
Radical – the book by David Platt
Has anyone read this book yet? I have read the first chapter as it’s free online if you go to their website HERE. Just scroll down to the bottom, enter your email address, and it gives you a .pdf file of the entire first chapter of the book. Right now, budget issues are just a bit tighter than normal, so I haven’t rushed out to buy this book yet, but it’s on my radar now. This book was suggested to me by a friend, and so I went to look it up and that’s how I came across the website and the first chapter. Incredibly, David Platt is only 32 years old (or so the website says) and a pastor of a mega-church “not too far” away from here (about 1 1/2 hours) just this side of Birmingham. As I read the first chapter I was...
On Megachurches and Evangelical Culture
To Rod Dreher, in response to his recent blog post about American Evangelical culture: As a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, I guess I would be considered an Evangelical. I’m not really sure what that word means anymore, since it’s been tossed around so many times. But your latest blog entry made me think about where the American Evangelical culture is going. Since I’m no theological expert, I don’t know how exactly to address the issues you present in your post. But perhaps my own story can shed a little light on the matter. Now I must warn you that I’m not an expert on either the Lutheran Church or Evangelical culture. These are just my observations as a regular guy trying to find his place within the Body of Christ. Before I became...